Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000

i Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 S.R. No. 126/2000 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objectives 1 2. Authorising provision 1 3. Commencement 2 4. Principal Regulations 2 5. Power of Corporation to erect speed-limit signs on certain roads 2 6. New regulation 303A inserted 3 303A. Corporation to consult before erecting certain traffic control items on local roads 3 7. Reduction in default speed-limit to 50 kilometres per hour 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 5 -- 1 of 6 -- 1 STATUTORY RULES 2000 S.R. No. 126/2000 Road Safety Act 1986 Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 5 December 2000 Responsible Minister: PETER BATCHELOR Minister for Transport HELEN DOYE Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objectives The objectives of these Regulations are to— (a) modify the effect of the Road Rules to reduce the default speed-limit in the State from 60 kilometres per hour to 50 kilometres per hour; and (b) further provide for the Roads Corporation's powers in relation to the erection, establishment, display, maintenance and removal of speed-limit signs. 2. Authorising provision These Regulations are made under section 95 of the Road Safety Act 1986. -- 2 of 6 -- S.R. No. 126/2000 Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 2 3. Commencement (1) These Regulations, other than regulation 7, come into operation on the day on which they are made. (2) Regulation 7 comes into operation on 22 January 2001. 4. Principal Regulations In these Regulations, the Road Safety (Road Rules) Regulations 1999 1 are called the Principal Regulations. 5. Power of Corporation to erect speed-limit signs on certain roads In regulation 303 of the Principal Regulations, after sub-regulation (2) insert— "(3) Subject to regulation 303A, the Corporation may, on a road other than a declared road, erect, establish, display, maintain, or remove a traffic control item that is a reasonable likeness of one of the following diagrams— (a) an Area speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; (b) an End area speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; (c) an End school zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; (d) an End shared zone sign at the end of rule 24 of the Road Rules; (e) an End speed-limit sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; (f) a School zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; r. 3 -- 3 of 6 -- S.R. No. 126/2000 Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 3 (g) a Shared zone sign in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules; (h) a Speed-limit sign (Standard sign) in Schedule 2 to the Road Rules.". 6. New regulation 303A inserted After regulation 303 of the Principal Regulations insert— "303A. Corporation to consult before erecting certain traffic control items on local roads (1) If the Corporation proposes to exercise a power under regulation 303(3) to erect, establish or display a traffic control item of a kind referred to in regulation 303(3)(a) to (h), the Corporation must notify, in writing, the Council in whose municipal district the traffic control item is proposed to be erected, established or displayed. (2) A Council that is notified under sub- regulation (1) of a proposal, has 21 days within which it may disagree, in writing, with the proposal. (3) If, within the period referred to in sub- regulation (2), a Council disagrees with a proposal and the Corporation intends to proceed with the proposal, the Corporation must publish a notice in a daily newspaper circulating generally in the State, of its intention to do so. (4) A notice under sub-regulation (3) must— (a) set out the details of the Corporation's proposal and the reasons for the proposal; and r. 6 -- 4 of 6 -- S.R. No. 126/2000 Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 4 (b) include a statement to the effect that the relevant Council has disagreed with the Corporation's proposal; and (c) specify where a copy of the Corporation's proposal can be obtained; and (d) invite public comments and submissions on the proposal within 21 days of the date of publication of the notice. (5) A person who intends to make a comment or submission on the proposal must make the comment or submission in writing to the Corporation. (6) The Corporation must consider every comment and submission it receives on the proposal. (7) The Corporation, as soon as practicable after making a decision on whether to proceed with the proposal, must publish notice of the decision in a daily newspaper circulating generally in the State.". 7. Reduction in default speed-limit to 50 kilometres per hour In Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations, after item 4 insert— "5. In rule 25(2) of the Road Rules, the reference to 60 kilometres per hour is to be read as a reference to 50 kilometres per hour.". ═══════════════ r. 7 -- 5 of 6 -- S.R. No. 126/2000 Road Safety (Road Rules) (Road Rules Modification No. 2) Regulations 2000 5 ENDNOTES 1 Reg. 4: S.R. No. 120/1999 as amended by S.R. No. 95/2000. Endnotes -- 6 of 6 --